Good morning friends. Yesterday, it was raining horribly like all day long. So I just stayed inside the hotel room.
And I was playing Halo Infinite, I'm trying to finish that campaign. But it's okay. It's like a little bit rainy today.
But it's okay if we get wet because that was the plan for today. We're gonna head to coast.
So we got out of Jaffna; I hit the coast and this coastline for many years was closed because of a Sri Lankan civil war.
But now it's open for tourists and as you're gonna see at the end of this vlog, it's got a real hidden gem.
But first, this day didn't exactly go to plan.
People are very friendly here. I just stopped at a random small little town in the middle of nowhere. Not sure where I am.
And, uhm, because my GoPro, the SD card started giving me error, it's not working, so.
I found the store here which sells a lot of movies, lotta Hindi movies and English movies too.
Like the first movie I noticed here was Thalaivi. And, he sold me an SD card.
So anyway, traveling along the coast here - the Jaffna coast from KKS Beach this way taking down the Point Pedro Rd.
and hopefully an even nicer beach than KKS because I wanted to go for a swim and show you KKS but it was no one there.
And the vibe wasn't good. So today is when I've seen all of the military presence; it's all on the outskirts.
But it doesn't make me feel unsafe or anything, as a tourist it wouldn't affect you.
But yeah, KKS beach wasn't so good.
So, I found out about another beach at the very very end of this road that we're gonna go and check out.
Everyone is saying hello and waving at me from inside the cars and from inside the shops. Yea, it's really nice here.
We're at Point Pedro now and this is the most northern point of Sri Lanka.
And in front of us we got the Bay of Bengal and straight ahead just India.
Let's go and find this beach now. Let's see if it's a great beach. (I'm told it's the best)
There's a lot to see on this road along the coast. There's a Hindu crematorium. There are tons of temples.
A lot of little villages to pass through, there's wetlands that you ride through, it was a nice ride.
And of course, there's many beaches along the way as well. And we have another beach.
Just not the best weather for the beach right? But I'm gonna give it a shot. Gotta do what I gotta do with my time here.
Oh and a lot of fishing boats as well. A lot of fishing is done in between here and India in the Palk Strait.
I'm just driving to Manatkaadu beach and I'm just gonna show you like
Ok, so, you're riding through the wetlands and tropical wetlands and then you come and see sand dunes... like massive sand dunes.
Over here it looks like an old church in the sand dunes... it's ruined.
Behind it, there is a cemetery in the sand dunes, that's just so different, such a cool ride. I've never seen any of this actually.
I don't know if I'm pronouncing that right and this is like a fisherman's colony.
These are their boats they take out and fish in the bay here or in the ocean.
Ohh beautiful... lovely!
Look even the dog is swimming.
Oh, man! This beach is beautiful it's paradise!
This actually reminds me of home; reminds me of my home in New Zealand.
Beautiful clean beach like this and big waves; we have huge waves in New Zealand.
Oh I can feel the spray hitting me, so nice here.